Nutritherapy
What About a Non-Diet Approach?
Listen to Your Body
Vast experience lets us deal caringly and effectively with disordered eating, food obsessions and fears, and related health issues…we’re here to help.
Nutrition counseling for:
- anorexia
- bulimia
- binge eating
- compulsive overeating
Nutritherapy sessions are offered individually or in a group setting and provide practical tips and techniques that are immediately useful. We focus on each individual’s specific needs and work to improve energy levels, raise metabolism, meet essential nutrient needs, and decrease food obsessions.
Learn to get in touch with emotional eating and hunger using a “non-diet” approach.
Page’s Approach with clients
Take a look at Page’s approach to working with eating disorder clients in this video from EDIN (Eating Disorders Insight and Education) put together by Laura Brown, RDN, a volunteer extraordinaire for EDIN.
Nutritherapy News & Notes
Page Love will present at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (EatRight.org) Foor & Nutrition Conference & Expo in October 2022. Together with Dr. Ron Thompson, Page will educate advanced clinicians about “Athletes with Eating Disorders: Unique Nutrition Assessment and Treatment Parameters.”
Page Love had a great time presenting with Jessica Lidner Cignarelli, LMFT, PhD, in the monthly EDIN Zoom Learning series, about how to deal with carb phobia, helping shift to nondiet thinking and accepting all foods as fuels, especially important energy sources like grains, breads, pastas, and potatoes! Go to myedin.org for more information about the EDIN zoom webinars and also for our upcoming Love Your Body Month activities for February!
Page Love was a featured speaker at The 31st Annual Renfrew Center Foundation Conference for Professionals: 2021 Perspectives on Feminism, Eating Disorders and Beyond, held virtually beginning Friday, November 12, 2021.
You can download a video of the presentation at this link:“HOW TO BECOME SPORT NUTRITION AND EXERCISE INTUITIVE DURING RECOVERY”
Page Love was featured in a live Zoom webinar with “5 Tips for Fueling Your Body: No Diets Needed!” hosted by Clarity Fitness and Abbey Griffith, Body Positive Gym Owner and Personal Trainer. You can watch the recording of the webinar below or go to YouTube to watch.
Page Love presented a workshop titled “Identifying and advising disordered eating patterns” on day 1 of the 15th Annual Emory Sports Medicine Symposium, May 14-15, 2022. To download the flyer, click here.
Page Love presented “From the Recreationally Active to the Elite Athlete: Helping Your Patients Become Sport Nutrition Intuitive” at the 3rd Annual Women’s Sports and Wellness Conference! Click the image or this link to learn more.
Check out “Top Ten Things a Personal Trainer Should Know About Working with Eating Disorders” by Page Love, featured in the Eating Disorders Resource Catalog.
Page Love spoke, along with Dr. Anna Tanner, on the topic of “Helping Young Athletes Return to Play while Recovering from Eating Disorders” at the Veritas Annual Symposium.
Page Love and her team participated in the Veritas Collaborative + EDIN Celebrity Dance Challenge. Page was joined by tennis-loving dancers Anna Wood, Kathy Watts Jones, and PRO Dancer Susie Grimley of En Pointe Studios.
Watch the video and go to 27 minutes in to see Page and the Love Your Body Dance Team supporting EDIN’s 2021 Celebrity Dance Challenge!
Page Love spoke at the Eating Disorder Symposium at Birmingham Botanical Gardens on the topic of Sports Nutrition for the Triad: Female Athletes, Male Athletes and Coaches.
Page Love, RDN, CSSD, spoke at the Emory Female Athlete Open House at the Hawks training center yesterday on pre- and post- fueling snacking tips for athletes. She also did a tour of the Hawks facility.
Nutrifit Dietitian Page Love was honored to receive the Humanitarian Award at the Manna Gala. Manna Fund raises money to give as scholarships for treatment of eating disorders. It also offers Christian-based treatment, a wonderful resource north of Atlanta. For more information go to: https://mannafund.org/
Read about Page Love’s dedication
Page Love received an award from the Manna Fund for her lifelong achievements in combatting eating disorders. Read the article in Simply Buckhead, page 19.
Radio Interview: Page Love was a guest on the Conflict Rising Radio Show with Jennifer McKenna, health coach and motivational counselor, about “Our Confusing Relationship with Food.” Dozens of commercial diets are launched every year. “Eat this. Don’t eat that” is a constant and confusing message. Where is the demand for these diets coming from? Have we convinced ourselves we don’t have time to prepare and enjoy whole meals? Are we trying to undo damage caused by obesity and other health issues? Page joined the show to help us unravel the mysteries of our relationship with food.
Page Love presented at the SEED Conference at the Lodge at Gulf Shores, Alabama, along with Madeline Altabe and Laura Brown. Her presentation was titled “It Takes a Village: Integrating Community Groups in the Treatment of Eating Disorders.”
Page Love enjoyed sharing the stage with Dr. Leah Johnson for the EDIN networking event on PCOS and enlightening a group of dietitians and therapists on working with PCOS patients with disordered eating.Check out EDIN’s upcoming educational events at myedin.org.
See CNN’s “Child eating disorders on the rise,” in which Page Love is quoted as an expert.
Love Your Body Month
Page Love spoke on a panel addressing how to best handle the medical, orthopedic, nutrition, and body image concerns of disordered eating in fitness settings: “Running on Empty: Food & Body Issues for Personal Trainers, Physical Therapists, and Coaches” that was held on Sunday, February 12, at Interfusion Fitness.
Mindfulness Training
Nutrifit recently held the “Mindful Movement & Fueling” fitness outing, a workshop alternating hydrating and fueling experiences with various mindful movement exercises for connection, awareness, nourishment, and fun!
Watch this interview with Miss Georgia about her struggles with eating from WRBL News 3
Page Love was recently interviewed about the recovery of Leighton Jordan, Miss Georgia. See a video and access the article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution here.
HELP FOR “PICKY EATERS”
Page Love was interviewed about “Dealing with ARFID – Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder” (formerly known as “picky eating” but now is a diagnosed eating disorder category) on The Kid Factory podcast, including topics like these:
- Why has there been such a drastic rise in eating disorders during the pandemic?
- What are some common myths about eating disorders in kids/adolescents?
- What are some signs to look for in our children/teens?
Listen by clicking on the image or here, or go to The Kid Factory page for other platforms.
Growing Too Thin
Eighth-grader Kara Haim interviewed Page Love and created this video as part of a semester project, which included writing a research paper and creating a website about eating disorders.
Take a moment to read this article by Page:
Top Ten Things a Personal Trainer Should Know About Working with Eating Disorders
RUNNING ON EMPTY: A PROGRAM FOR COACHES & TRAINERS
EDIN’s Running on Empty Program is a training to provide coaches and athletic trainers with the skills and resources needed to identify and prevent eating disorders among their athletes. This training will also teach coaches and trainers how to effectively communicate with and support at-risk athletes.
To learn more about getting a Running on Empty presentation at your school or for your group, go to myedin.org.
Curriculum Objectives:
Coaches will be able to:
- Identify disordered eating patterns, over-exercising and under-fueling (known as Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports) in athletes
- Employ positive strategies to communicate with athletes and parents regarding disordered eating
- Provide examples of ways to support an athlete’s disordered eating recovery process
- Identify ways to prevent disordered eating among their athletes through adequate fueling and healthy training practices
RELATIVE ENERGY DEFICIENCY IN SPORT (RED-S)
Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) is an updated version of the Female Athlete Triad, which had previously connected menstrual dysfunction in females with disordered eating and osteoporosis. RED-S has adapted this model and expanded on it to include the numerous psychological, physiological, and performance problems including:
- Decreased endurance
- Impaired in judgement
- Decreased concentration and coordination
- Depression
- Decreased bone health
- Menstrual dysfunction (in females)
RED-S is caused by low nutritional intake in conjunction with athletic activity and exercise, in other words an imbalance in input and output.
Here are some red flags that you of your athlete may not be getting enough fuel:
- Amenorrhea (loss of menstruation)
- Stress fractures, or other injuries that do not heal
- Feeling lightheaded or fainting
- Chronic fatigue (feeling tired all of the time)
Mountjoy, M., Sundgot-Borgen, J., Burke, L., Carter, S., Constantini, N., Lebrun, C., .. Ljungqvist, A. (2014). The IOC consensus statement: beyond the Female Athlete Triad—Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S). British Journal of Sports Medicine, 48(7), 491-497. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2014-093502
Past and current clients include:
ANAD: National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
Atlanta Center for Eating Disorders
Breakthrough REcovery
CRC Health
Eating Disorderes INformation Network
Eating Recovery Center
International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals
Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia
National Eating Disordersd Association
Peachford Hospital Eating Disorders Program
Renfrew Center
Summit Ridge Center for Psychiatry
Victory Program
Veritas Collaborative
Helpful Handouts!
Now available is a set of useful handouts about handling overexercise issues, body image, dealing with food fears, mindful eating, decreasing obsessional behavior, and more.
CONFERENCEs
The 29th Annual Renfrew Center Foundation Conference for Professionals will be held from November 8-10, 2019 at the Philadelphia Airport Marriott and is titled “Feminist Relational Perspectives and Beyond: Discerning Truth.”
The 10th Annual SEED Conference will be held August 16 & 17, 2019 in Gulf Shores, AL. Page Love will be a featured speaker.